YouTube Public Prom Proposals Are The Last Thing We Need

In the future, everyone’s major and minor life events will be documented on the Internet. They’ll say to their wives, “Oh hey, did I ever show you the time my parents found out I got into college? It was 30 Rock themed, hold on let me bring it up.” They’ll say to their children, “Do you want to see how mommy and daddy got engaged? Daddy got all of Mommy and Daddy’s friends and family to half-heartedly learn a song and dance from Pitch Perfect, which was a movie Mommy kind of liked at the time, and performed it at the mall while mommy was shopping. It was beautiful, let’s watch together.” “OMG I love that video of when you got braces and your parents sang that embarrassing song at you in the car. Hahahaha, it’s the best let’s watch it again and then we can watch mine.” Some will say that it’s beautiful how we relive these moments whenever we want and share them with those who weren’t around when they happened, others will say uh, no, screw you, most of these moments wouldn’t have happened if YouTube didn’t exist anyway, you’re choreographing your real life and the real lives of those around you for an audience of strangers in the desperate hope that, if only for a day, they will know you exist. This teenager proposing himself as a prom date with an inexplicable Pokemon theme didn’t create the problem, BUT HE IS FOR SURE !00% MAKING IT WORSE FOR NO GOOD REASON, LIKE, YOU DO NOT EVEN HAVE TO PLAN ANY KIND OF PROM PROPOSAL, WHAT IS GOING ON OUT THERE?!!

Good thing every single one of those kids has a camera on their phone to film this beautiful memory. Plz send all of the videos straight to the hole in my backyard where I have buried myself alive. Just stick them in the dirt — I’ll find them eventually. (Via Geekologie.)

Comments (28)

Did you guys have large/public invitations to prom or other dances? That was a really big deal at my school. The cheerleaders would ask dudes to the “lady asks” dances with these GIANT signs and I always wondered where they got that large paper. It was always very elaborate and pretty annoying.

I don’t know. Generally, I agree with the sentiment, but I actually feel better seeing documentation of a dude named Terry dressed up in pokemon costume being hailed publicly as a hero in a High School and getting the girl, rather than having his head stuffed in a toilet. UNLESS…is this in Canada?

Not to brag, but I set the bar preeeety high back in my day when I asked a girl I like to the prom.

First, I asked all my friends for intel on the odds on whether or not she’s say yes, thereby any element of surprise. Then, for about 2 weeks, I obssed over asking her, dying 10,000 deaths as I ran every scenario in my head.

Then, the fateful day, I sweated through my shirt and nervously stammered out some semblance of English which the girl in question somehow intuited to be a request to go to the prom and — either because she didn’t take her pills that day, was completing an elaborate dare or was just a genuinely nice person who realized that this was me doing my level-best — said yes.

I never wanted to go to prom because I thought it was stupid and wasteful. But my idiot friends peer pressured me into going because MEMORIES so I used it as an excuse to get this really awesome brown silk slip dress (in 1994 a very daring choice) and ask this stoner kid that looked like Sideshow Bob. He gave me sunflowers, which looked amazing with the dress. But because I was a loud boorish angry feminist who hated everything about where I grew up, etc. etc. showing off that I cleaned up nice was kind of fun. And I got a lot of mileage out of that dress, which didn’t look like a prom dress at all and was wearable to fancy college stuff. But getting sunflowers as prom flowers was a pretty cool move by that guy… Good job, dude.

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